Columbus Day 2024
United States · Sunday, October 13, 2024 · FM1, Q1 of FY2025
- Country
- United States
- Calendar date 2024
- 2024-10-13 (Sunday)
- Observed date 2024
- 2024-10-14 (Monday) — Monday after (Commonwealth bank-holiday convention)
- Fiscal year
- FY2025 (open year)
- Fiscal month / quarter
- FM1 of 12 · Quarter Q1 · printable monthly template
- Source
- OPM federal holidays
About Columbus Day
Second Monday in October, federal holiday. Some states observe Indigenous Peoples' Day on the same date instead.
This page is the 2024-specific edition: it shows the actual weekday, the observed date if a weekend rule applies, and the placement of the holiday inside the United States fiscal year that contains it. For the canonical, year-agnostic overview see the main Columbus Day page.
2024 weekday and observance
In 2024, Columbus Day falls on Sunday, October 13. Falling on a Sunday, the official observance shifts to a weekday under most national rules. Pay date for any payroll run whose payday lands on this date moves to the preceding business day.
Where it lands in FY2025
For organisations on the United States fiscal calendar, Columbus Day 2024 sits in fiscal month 1 (FM1), inside quarter Q1 of FY2025. From this date, you have approximately 352 days remaining until fiscal year-end on September 30, 2025. That distance matters because year-end close planning typically begins 60 to 90 days out — meaning if FYE is within that window, this holiday already sits inside the close-planning runway and any client-facing or vendor-facing deadlines that touch it should be pre-cleared rather than rescheduled later.
For the same holiday in adjacent fiscal years see: Columbus Day 2023 · Columbus Day 2025 · Columbus Day 2026
Operational impact for finance teams
For finance and operations teams, Columbus Day 2024 reduces the working-day count for FM1 by one. If the holiday falls within two business days of a fiscal month-end, expect downstream impact on accrual timing (revenue cutoff, inventory counts, AP cutoffs) and on banking value dates. Wire transfers and ACH/Faster Payments typically settle the next business day; international wires may slip two days when both origin and destination observe the holiday. See our guide on mapping holidays to fiscal months for a worked example of folding observance dates into the close calendar.
If your business operates payroll on a biweekly cadence aligned to the OPM federal schedule, check the 2024 pay period schedule for the pay period containing this date — the payday for that period may shift to the preceding business day.
Cross-references
- Printable October template (FM1) — see this holiday highlighted in the calendar grid.
- Q1 quarterly template — context inside the three-month fiscal quarter.
- FY2025 overview for United States — full year-at-a-glance.
- Main Columbus Day page — year-agnostic background.